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In this exciting chapter book for younger readers, Bunny and Sue get to know a sweet Shetland pony named Toby. The trio have lots of fun together -- until the curious pony wanders off and gets lost. Will Bunny and Sue be able to find their new friend?

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Publié par	The Floating Press
Date de parution	01 décembre 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781776673759
Langue	English

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BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE AND THEIR SHETLAND PONY
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LAURA LEE HOPE

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Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony First published in 1918 Epub ISBN 978-1-77667-375-9 Also available: PDF ISBN 978-1-77667-376-6 © 2015 The Floating Press and its licensors. All rights reserved. While every effort has been used to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information contained in The Floating Press edition of this book, The Floating Press does not assume liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in this book. The Floating Press does not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance upon the accuracy or currency of information contained in this book. Do not use while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment. Many suitcases look alike. Visit www.thefloatingpress.com
Contents
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Chapter I - In the Ark Chapter II - The Frightened Pony Chapter III - Mr. Tallman Chapter IV - Looking for a Pony Chapter V - The Short Tallman Chapter VI - Bunny, Sue and Toby Chapter VII - The First Ride Chapter VIII - Sue's Handkerchief Chapter IX - Toby's New Trick Chapter X - Toby Walks Away Chapter XI - Off to the Farm Chapter XII - The Wrong Road Chapter XIII - Toby Finds the Way Chapter XIV - Toby's Other Trick Chapter XV - Red Cross Money Chapter XVI - In the Woods Chapter XVII - The Dark Man Chapter XVIII - Toby is Gone Chapter XIX - The Search Chapter XX - In a Storm Chapter XXI - The Gypsy Camp Chapter XXII - "There's Toby!" Chapter XXIII - Prisoners Chapter XXIV - The Red-and-Yellow Box Chapter XXV - To the Rescue
Chapter I - In the Ark
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"Oh, Bunny! Here comes Bunker Blue!"
"Where is he? I don't see him!"
Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue were playing on the shady side porch oftheir house one morning, when the little girl, looking up from a crackerbox which had been made into a bed—where she was putting her doll tosleep—saw a tall boy walking up the path.
"There's Bunker!" went on Sue to her brother, Bunny, at the same timepointing. "Maybe he's come to take us for a ride in one of daddy'sfishing boats!"
"Have you, Bunker?" asked Bunny, standing up and brushing some shavingsfrom his little jacket, for he had been using a dull kitchen knife,trying to whittle out a wooden boat from a piece of curtain stick. "Oh,Bunker, have you?"
"Have I what?" asked the tall boy, who worked on the dock where Mr.Brown, the father of Bunny and Sue, carried on a boat and fish business."Have I what?" Bunker asked again, and he stood still and gazed at thetwo small children who were anxiously looking at him.
"Have you come to take us for a ride?" asked Bunny.
"In one of daddy's boats?" added Sue, who generally waited for herbrother to speak first, since he was a year older than she.
"Not this time, messmates," answered Bunker Blue with a laugh, callingthe children the name one sailor sometimes gives to another. "Not thistime messmates. I've come up to get the ark."
"Oh, the ark!" cried Bunny. "Did you hear that, Sue? Bunker has come upto get the ark!"
"Oh! Oh!" and Sue fairly squealed in delight. "Then we'll have a niceride in that. Wait, Bunker, till I put my doll away, and I'll come withyou. Wait for me!"
"And I'll come, too," added Bunny. "I can bring my boat with me. 'Tisn'tall done yet," he added, "but I can whittle on it when we ride along,and then I can sail it when we get to the dock."
"Now avast there and belay, messmates!" cried Bunker Blue with a laugh,using some more of the kind of talk he heard among the sailors that cameto Mr. Brown's dock with boats of fish. "Wait a minute! I didn't say Ihad come to give you a ride in the ark. I just came to get it."
"But you will let us ride, won't you, Bunker?" asked Bunny, smiling atthe tall boy.
"'Cause we'll sit just as still as anything," added Sue.
"And I won't touch the steering wheel—not once!" promised Bunny.
"I guess you'd better not—not after you once got almost run away within the big ark," said Bunker. "I should say not!"
"Oh, please let us come with you!" begged Sue. "We want awful much toride in the ark, Bunker!"
While the two children were talking to the tall boy another little girlhad crawled under the fence from the street, and was now standing nearBunny and his sister. She was Sadie West, one of Sue's chums, and whenshe heard Bunny's sister begging for a ride in the "ark" Sadie said:
"Oh, Sue! is he going to take your Noah's ark away? I wouldn't let himif I were you!"
"It isn't Noah's ark at all," Sue explained. "We call the bigautomobile, that we had such a long ride in, the ark. It looks a littlelike a Noah's ark, but it's bigger, and we can all get in it," sheadded.
"Oh!" exclaimed Sadie. "I thought Bunker meant he was going to take yourlittle ark, and all the wooden animals, away," she added.
"Not this time," said Bunker Blue. "Your father sent me up, Bunny, toget the big auto—the ark, as you call it. It's got to be fixed, and I'mto drive it to the shop over at East Milford. That's why I came up.Where's your mother? I want to tell her I'm taking away the ark, so shewon't think some tramps or some gypsies have run off with it."
"I'll call her," Sue said, while Bunny kept on brushing the tinywhittlings from his jacket and short trousers. And there was a queerlook on the face of Bunny Brown.
"What are you making, Bunny?" asked Bunker, as he waited for Sue to gointo the house and give her mother the message.
"Boat," Bunny answered.
"Pretty small one, isn't it?" inquired Bunker, who knew a lot aboutboats and fish, from having worked at Mr. Brown's dock a number ofyears. "Awful small boat."
"It's a lifeboat that I'm going to put on my big sailboat," explainedBunny, for he had a large boat, with a real sail on it that could beraised and lowered. It was not a boat large enough for him and Sue toride on, though Sue sometimes gave one of her dolls a trip on it. "Ihave to have a lifeboat on my sailboat," Bunny went on, "'cause maybe ascrumbarine might sink my big ship."
"That's so," agreed Bunker. "Well, Bunny, you go in and tell your motherI'm going to take the ark, will you? I'm in a hurry, and I guess Sueforgot what she went after. You go in and tell your mother."
"Yes, I'll do that," Bunny promised. "But can't we have a ride in theark with you, Bunker?"
"Not this time, Bunny!"
"Please, Bunker!"
"No, your father didn't say anything about taking you over to the EastMilford auto shop with me, and I don't dare do it unless he says so."
"Well, we can ask him," went on Bunny eagerly.
"No, I haven't time to run down to the dock again, and your father isbusy there. A big load of fish came in, and he has to see that they geticed, so they won't spoil. Hurry and tell your mother—Oh, here shecomes now!" exclaimed Bunker Blue, as Mrs. Brown came to the door. Sueand Sadie West stood behind her.
"Did you want to see me, Bunker?" asked Mrs. Brown.
"Yes'm," answered the boy. "Mr. Brown sent me up to get the ark. Hewants me to drive it over to Simpson's garage, in East Milford, to haveit looked over and fixed. I thought if I went into the barn and took themachine out without telling you, maybe you'd think some gypsies ran awaywith it."
"Why! are there any gypsies around now, Bunker?" asked Mrs. Brown.
"Yes, I heard the other day that a band of them was camping up along thecreek. But I guess they won't come bothering around here."
"If they do I'll sic Splash, my dog, on 'em," said Bunny.
"Yes, I guess Splash will scare off the gypsies," agreed Bunker Bluewith a laugh. Then he added: "So, now I've told you what I'm going todo, Mrs. Brown, I'll go and get the ark and drive it over."
"All right, Bunker," said Mrs. Brown. "Is my husband very busy?"
"Yes'm. A big boatload of fish just came in, and he's seeing to having'em iced."
"Oh, then he can't come up. I was just going to telephone that I wantthe sideboard moved to the other end of the room, and it's too heavy forUncle Tad to manage alone. I thought Mr. Brown might run up and help,but if he's so busy with the fish—"
"I'll help," offered Bunker. "I'm not in such a hurry as all that. I'llhelp Uncle Tad move the sideboard, and then I'll get the auto."
"Can't we go with you?" begged Sue. "Can't we have a ride in the ark,Mother?"
"Oh, my, no!" exclaimed Mrs. Brown. "Bunker can't be bothered with youchildren."
"I wouldn't mind taking them, ma'am," said the fish boy. "In fact, I'dlike to, but their father didn't say anything about it. Besides, I'llhave to walk back from East Milford after I leave the ark there to befixed. It'd be too far for them to walk back."
"Of course it would. Run along now, Bunny and Sue, and have some fun byyourselves. Don't bother Bunker."
Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue stood on the side porch looking at oneanother as Bunker went in the house to help Uncle Tad move thesideboard. Uncle Tad was an old soldier who lived with the Brown family.He was Mr. Brown's uncle, but Bunny and Sue thought they owned just asmuch of the dear old man as did their father. Sadie West, who hadcrawled in under the fence instead of going around by the gate, ran homeagain, leaving Bunny and Sue by themselves.
"Say, Sue," began Bunny in a low voice, looking toward the house to makesure his mother and Bunker Blue had gone inside.
"What, Bunny?" asked the little girl.
"I know what we can do," went on Bunny.
"What?"
This time Bunny whispered.
"We can go out to the barn," he said in a low voice, his lips close tohis sister's ear, "an' get in the ark when Bunker doesn't see us. Hecan't see us 'cause he's in the house helping Uncle Tad move thesideboard. We can easy get in the ark."
"What for?" Sue wanted to know. "Bunker said he wouldn't give us aride."
"Yes. But if we're in there he'll have to!"
"Why?" asked Sue.
"'Cause," whispered Bunny, "he won't know we're in there at all, Sue!"
"Won't he?" asked Sue, her eyes shining.
"Nope! While Bunker's in the house helping Uncle Tad move the sideboard,we'll crawl in the back end of the ark. And we'll kee